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In the non fiction book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Eric went around and collected information about the fast food restaurants around America. He got information on how they started and what their tactics were in making money when getting their business up and running. He went around and got all the information, so of course he wrote the book. The most important peace of information to get from this book would be that things that you think are good and healthy are actually just as bad as the things you try to avoid. Through out the United States, the fast food restaurants grew quickly. Restaurants such as Mc Donald’s, Burger King, KFC, Tim Horton’s, Wendy’s and many others were all among them. They use certain tactics to lure children in too buy their food. Most people know that fast food is bad for you, but there are still many people that eat it. The theme is all fast food is bad no matter what is advertised. This is significant because Americans who only eat fast food will soon develop problems later on in life with weight and maybe even diabetes.

Fast food is bad no matter what people tell you. The fact that in one burger there is not just from one cow but from many different cows. When you eat a burger your eating fat, grease, cholesterol, and other such additives that are not good for your body. Also not too mention the disease that could strike at any moment at a billion places, because if one cow has a disease it will infect millions of burgers across the nation and millions of people. Also the conditions in which the burgers come in. The factories that the burgers you eat come from, girls are rapes, men and women are getting cuts and limbs cut off. The fact that one of these personnel could also have some affections disease that could get spread around the world. Also the problems the burger itself causes. The grease, fat and all the others bad things in them cause most Americans who eat it all the time to be over weight and eventually could cause diabetes from the excessive amount of salt, cholesterol, fat and more.

Fast food has a bad impact on everyone. Back when there was no such thing as a fast food restaurant you would notice that men, women and children had a healthier life then most Americans do now. They did not eat all that bad additives in there meal because it was grown right from their own garden. As the years went by Americans weight problem and health problem grew more and more by the increasing number of fast food restaurants growing an the United States. Fast Food Nation was written to inform people better of where their food is coming from and what the history of the fast food business is like. Everything was told in a matter or fact way that was believable and factual. One said "During the same years when the working conditions at Americans meat marketing plants become more dangerous - when the line speeds increases and illegal immigrants replaced skilled workers - the federal government greatly reduced the enforcement of health and safety laws." Throughout Fast Food Nation, it has been proven that there is more to the meal your getting then what you think. We all knew that fast food was bad, but now we know just how bad it really is. So next time you go to Burger King, or Mc Donald’s, think about just what it is your really eating.

Fast Food restaurants give you all the bad food anyone could imagine. The theme in the book tells us that fast food is bad for you and that the business of making fast food is through a bad process of rape, unsanitary, and illegal making. While the workers work the bosses of the factory rape girls, while unsanitary conditions threaten us with sickness. In history Americans health has declined due too the fast food that has been served to U.S. citizens for so long, and also the rising weight problem also due the fast food. So while we are enjoying a nice tasty burger, think about that fat, grease, cholesterol and the thought about the process they gone through within the factories. When you hear what in and what happens when these burgers are made you will always remember it the next you go to eat another burger. So if this will be in your mind every time you eat a burger the effectiveness is great to any person who reads this book. It’s important to understand the theme because it could help some Americans lose weight and maybe if the world knew it could change the health factor for Americans. And maybe if the factories lose money and shut down there could be less violence and misconduct going on and nothing illegal would happen no more.